Robert Half
None are homely who smile.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them and a lifetime to forget them.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
I don't like your manners.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
My heart shall be thy garden.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It ain't over till it's over.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations – it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
Truth fears no questions.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me, now, standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
It's like, I became such a good person, I almost forgot... I'm a world class liar, baby !
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.